Walkie-talkie feedback music
Gordon Charlton uses the feedback of two walkie-talkies to make beautiful interesting music. Rob B has more info and a video over at BB Gadgets.Unpleasant feedback music with walkie-talkies
Gordon Charlton uses the feedback of two walkie-talkies to make beautiful interesting music. Rob B has more info and a video over at BB Gadgets.Unpleasant feedback music with walkie-talkies
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you can also do this with cell phones, which add the benefit of echo...
you need two phones.
phone 1 dials phone 2.
phone 2 answers.
turn phone 2 upside down, so that the earpiece meets the mouthpiece of phone 1.
whistle into the middle.
enjoy dubbish feedback with satellite delay...
Good call on the cell phones,
A co-worker hipped me to that a few months back.
what's the deal with everyone hating on the way phone feedback sounds. And what's the deal with airline food.
The more walkie talkies the better the feedback loop too. I used work for a facility maintenance crew composed many sonic miscreants who found many time slayers much like this one.
Baby heart monitors make wonderful and beautiful feedback as well.
Matmos actually used this on their first album, I believe - apparently you can just hold the walkie-talkies next to a cassette recorder and the wiring picks up the signal without a microphone.
It's a small-scale and (slightly) more controlled version of Steve Reich's "Pendulum Music":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVC9_e2hzQ
If you're going to try this at home, do remember that you're broadcasting! If there's someone within range trying to use the same channel they're not going to be happy bunnies.